I have a Swift evolution proposal up for review! It's all about helping to simplify and reduce duplication of settings in package definitions. I'd love to hear your feedback.

SE-0540: Default Package Settings

Hello, Swift community! The review of SE-0540: Default Package Settings begins now and runs through August 17, 2026. Reviews are an important part of the Swift evolution process. All review feedback should be either on this forum thread or, if you would like to keep your feedback private, directly to me as the review manager by DM. When contacting the review manager directly, please put "SE-0540" in the subject line. What goes into a review? The goal of the review process is to improve the pr...

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Big Walk. Tomorrow.

I’ve made it on to both AI haters and AI lovers lists. I am the enigma

My energy company just sent me a Power Wrapped with how much energy I used this year…

Iroh seems cool until I saw it’s a 25MB addition to any iOS bundle… Looks to me like they could pretty easily make it a lot slimmer by removing some of the relay code, etc. that’s bot required for basic connections. Or an actual Swift package so we aren’t copying rust stdlib into a binary

"I built up so much trust in Hank over the literal thousands of videos he put out about science, but then he was sloppy in how he wrote the 'do you shave your butt' script and it left me wondering who I can trust"

ponder@ponder.ooo · 5d ago

looking at the video that kicked this off makes these follow-ups feel absolutely insane to me tbh. this is all spiraling out from a single turn of phrase in a video whose title was about whether this man shaves his butt!! what kind of standards do people expect from "do you shave your butt" content?

📰 It's time for July Wasm updates: forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-... WasmKit implemented Relaxed SIMD, extended-const, and shared linear memory, and now supports ESP32-C6, new JavaScriptKit and @elementary.codes releases, and more! #WebAssembly #Wasm #WASI #EmbeddedSwift #SwiftLang #JavaScript

Swift for Wasm July 2026 Updates

Notable changes this month: work on an Emscripten-hosted Swift toolchain; IRGen gained a fix for async typed throws miscompiles on wasm32; WasmKit implemented the Relaxed SIMD and extended-const propo...

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firing on all cylinders today

Alright this got me to sign up for the waitlist. The irony of considering using AI to do a newsletter, because the newsletters I subbed to have been slowly inundated with AI slop is not lost on me. However the fact that it pulls from bsky makes it insanely convenient

Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com · 6d ago

Thanks to this suggestion, you can now schedule updates to @attie.ai pages to build your own personal newsletter about whatever it is you care about ❤️ attie.ai/@brittanyell...

Zurich airport has an open air observation deck????

Leaving for a TWO WEEK vacation in the morning with my gf I’m so pumped to have some time off work and chill out Gonna be staying in Santorini, Greece for a few days, then spending the rest of the time in Amsterdam

Ngl the Storm may have the worst basketball court I’ve ever seen

Delayed reaction ah cat

No memory is safe, stop using RAM

I think I figured out my new favorite way of doing strongly typed network requests in Swift. Previously I was doing a big `Resources` enum, which had a case for each path on the server, and a whole slew of type aliases for Request/Response types. 1/2

Wicked was lit last night. Phenomenal performance at the Orpheum

Guy who is sitting in his garage with the car running so he can breathe some fresher air.

My Swift Code Screenshot any% speedrun submission. INSANE attempt, with a solid __48.24s__ split. #1 on @speedrun.net for SURE. Unfortunate only the pros can do it this fast, takes lots of time and practice to get this good ✌️

Stewart Lynch 🇨🇦@stewartlynch.bsky.social · 3w ago

New Blog Post: One of Swift’s most overlooked patterns: using enums as namespaces. It’s a simple technique that makes your code cleaner, more discoverable, and easier to maintain. Learn when to use it and when not to. www.createchsol.com/blog/2026-07...

This is not only a welcome sign but more importantly a reminder to drive safely

Got to use ManagedBuffer today for a Swift data structure for performance reasons. I love working closer to pointers sometimes, it’s very fun and interesting programming imo

What an incredible PR submitted to SwiftTerm - it already rendered Arabic correctly, but now selection and reflow are correct in arabic/hebrew. Gnome's VTE already did this correctly as well. Still digesting the PR: https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/pull/589

The most important FreeCAD feature to date has arrived: Banana For Scale. Install from the Addon Manager and add a banana or soda can to your model for instant scale reference in screenshots. blog.freecad.org/2026/07/12/new-addon-banana-for-scale/ #FreeCAD #CAD #OpenSource #Addon #BananaForScale

New Addon; Banana For Scale!

Take a seat, mark the time and remember where you were for this announcement of our most important new feature to date. Indeed, whilst making excellent technical drawings on the TechDraw workbench,…

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Lynx had half the lines open today for a noon Saturday game against the 2nd best team in the league

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOO! Original post

- hey this sucks man - I'm losing my mind at the suggestion that the WNBA may be violating federal civil rights laws by letting Caitlin Clark get fouled - I wanna know when this letter was sent in relation to Trump's FIFA call--like are GOP electeds just trying to speak to the manager of sports now?

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump’s GOP is trying to remake the wnba over into wwe’s image. Racist stereotypes, symbolic race wars, and everyday eugenics. it’s a sign of how popular the sport is and how captured everything is. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

🐺🐺🐺🐺 LeBron is a wolf

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Minnesota Timberwolves (mirror)@timberwolvesbot.mirrors.bot · 4w ago

two words: THANK YOU. 💙 Original post

PDS Operator it's a self hosted dashboard for your PDS. watches labelers and dms you when an account gets flagged. accounts, takedowns, pwd resets, invites, relay status, passkey sign-in, audit log, setup wizard with a qr code. deploy in minutes. tangled.org/brookie.blog...

the highs and lows of profiling